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The Indiana Court of Appeals Wednesday found that an estate of a man with dependents can recover attorney fees under the General
Wrongful Death Statute, but the trial court erred in how it calculated the amount the law firm will receive.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the petition for judicial review filed by a company that runs a southern Indiana mine,
finding sufficient evidence supports fining the company for violating federal regulation requiring a protective mound along
an elevated roadway.

The Indiana Supreme Court held Wednesday that police do not need to have a warrant before testing lawfully seized evidence,
even if that evidence is unrelated to the crime for which the defendant is in custody.

The Department of Child Services will fund state subsidies for children adopted from foster care for the fiscal year that
began July 1. The announcement comes after a lawsuit claimed the state reneged on promises to provide the assistance to about
1,400 eligible families since 2009.

A college newspaper sued Purdue University on Tuesday over its refusal to release surveillance video that editors said shows
a staff photographer being roughed up by police when he entered the building where a student had been fatally shot and stabbed.

Each week longtime friends Bill Satterlee, managing partner at Hoeppner Wagner & Evans LLP in Valparaiso, and Kent Lindquist,
senior judge for the Bankruptcy Court in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, share their mutual
love of jazz by recording a two-hour show that airs Sunday nights on the local public radio station.

While the convenience of handheld, portable computers enables employees to peruse email, communicate with clients and review
documents without being tied to the office, the “bring your own device,” or BYOD, trend is creating tensions between
how much access an employer can have to the worker-owned device and how much privacy an employee can expect.

Two years after Indiana’s right-to-work law fought its way out of the Statehouse, the measure has suffered another knockout
blow in a state court. Plaintiffs have successfully convinced two courts that the Indiana Constitution has given the controversial
statute a glass jaw.

An employee’s reported threat to blow his boss’s head off resulted in an injunction barring him from the workplace,
but the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed recently in a case that highlighted conflicting statutes aimed at preventing violence
on the job.

With same-sex marriage gaining momentum in Indiana and across the nation, it is no surprise that protection from discrimination
in the workplace based on sexual orientation and gender identity is most likely on the horizon.

It is ironic that the week after Burger King’s new CEO is heralded for a profitability plan designed around the increase
of franchises and the reduction of company-owned locations, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board directed
officials to treat McDonald’s USA as a “joint employer” with its franchisees for purposes of the National
Labor Relations Act.

As most good rainmakers know, it is all about networking, and sometimes this means talking to people who are total strangers.
It can be daunting to attend an event that your firm is sponsoring or a conference that your target market attends and be
expected to “go out there and make new friends.”

It begins with a ten year old’s Happy New Year greeting to her grandpa, including the sentence, “Mommy and Daddy
are cranky.” It ends with a brief reminder on a lawyer’s personal legal stationary. In between these handwritten
notes, “The Divorce Papers” tells a story about a divorce through legal documents, emails, court filings, news
articles, a psychiatric report, statutes, judicial opinions, billable hour reports, invitations, and, of course, offers and
counter-offers.

Morgan County parents, including a father who dealt meth to a confidential informant while his wife and three minor children
were present, lost an appeal of their termination of parental rights Tuesday.